Children Quotes

When children sound silly, you will always find that it is in imitation of their elders.

To talk to a child, to fascinate him, is much more difficult than to win an electoral victory. But it is also more rewarding.

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do – or don’t do.

The soul is healed by being with children.

There are some things best done for love, not for gain. Child rearing is one of the most obvious examples. Children need to know that their parents love them unconditionally. By sacrificing a second income so one parent can be home, parents boost their children’s self-esteem much more than by taking them to work once […]

Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of an unimaginative adult despotism in their lives.

Life, love, and laughter – what priceless gifts to give our children.

What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them.

What we found in examining diaries, letters, autobiographies, pediatric and pedagogical literature back to antiquity was that good parenting appears to be something only historically achieved, and that the further one goes back into the past the more likely one would be to find children killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorized and sexually abused by adults. Indeed, […]

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.